It's so easy to topple from this life on a thread And you say why bother When it goes either way, the hair trigger is set But it needs an extension Why do I bother To trouble myself? My dreams overflow With heights and malt liquor Elastic forms of escape From twenty-year-old threads And parasitic dread Why do I bother? Why do I bother? Drive me to the grave of the unknown soldier I've been payin' rent too long And the mortgage is gone It's so easy to topple from this life on a thread And you say why bother When it goes either way, the hair trigger is set I need an explanation Or a transplant Or a transplant Drive me to the grave of the unknown soldier I've been payin' rent too long And the mortgage is gone Drive me to the grave of the unknown soldier Drive me to the grave of the unknown soldier The mortgage is gone The mortgage is gone